So then if our works aren’t good enough to save us, then why do them?Because... {sigh} ...they ARE, however, good enough to KEEP us!
Exasperated_Catholic_Dude(Hail Mary; mother of GOD...)
"OK. So then if our works aren’t good enough to save us, then why do them?" Simply because it's intrinsically the right thing to do! How can a person call themselves a follower of Jesus, and not do good works. What do we do, even within our small human capacity, to show gratitude and love for Christ?! For God's sake, I am so sick and tired of the "love your neighbor as yourself" being left out of the equation, and people deciding who is saved and who is not, as if they were God, and either Bible thumping or gloating at other people they think are not saved, or born again, or whatever.
Where's the charity, the love for our neighbor, that Christ told us was the second greatest commandment?